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BUTTON.

10.355,601. Patented-Jan.. 4, 1887.

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NrrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT ELSDON, OF BROGKLEY, COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND.

BUTTON. A

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,601, dated January 4, 1887.

Application filed December 22, 1884. Serial No. 151,018. (No modell) Patented in England January 29. 1884, No. 2,346; in France A November 5, 1384, No. 165,182, and in Germany December 11, 1884, No. 32,894.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT ELsDoN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and resid- 'ing at Brockley, in the county of Kent and Kingdom of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin the Manufacture of Buttons, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in the following countries: Great Britain, dated January 29, 1884, No. 2,846; in France, dated November 5, 1884, No. 165,182, and Germany, dated December 11, 1884, No.- 32,8945) and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper trains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of that class of metal buttons known as set, fspun,77 or closed77 buttons, bar or two-hole buttons,imitation solid, flat, and livery7 buttons, andthe like, the frames of which consist of a circular wire wheel somewhat of the shape of the numeral 8, with or without a loop-shaped bend projecting at right angles to the saidwheel or frame from the center bar thereof, as shown in Figure 1.

' Fig. 2 represents a trouser, bar, or two-hole button constructed in accordance with this invention.

In manufacturing this class of button the circular portion of the wheel or frame is constructed of a diameter smaller than the fnished button, and is subjected to pressure between suitable dies or otherwise, and that portion of the wire frame is thus spread or flattened to the shape of the finished button, as shown in Fig. 2, while the center bar remains more or lessI of its original section, but becomes during this process of stamping slightly curved lengthwise, so that in manufacturing this class of button I find it necessary in some cases to previously form the loop-shaped bend. The circular portions of buttons thus formed may be covered at theback or front, or both, with thin metal for carrying a name or other device, if required, or the name or device may be stamped in the metalof the button itself, and, preferably, at the same time that it is subjected to pressure, as before described.

Fig. 3 represents a button constructed aslast described, 4but with a face or shell, F,

or shank, I sometimes employ lengths of wirerolled or otherwise formed, as shown in Fig. 4, A being the part intended to form the bar or shank, and A2 and A3 being the parts intended to form the circular portion of the frame or button and which it is intended to subject to pressure land Hatten or spread out, as hereinbefore described.

I claim- 1; A bent-wire button or button-frame the circumferential part of which is spread or flattened and provided with an integral center bar, all substantially as set forth.

2. A bent-wirebutton-frame having its circumferential portion spread or iiattened and provided with an integral crossbar having a reduced section, substantially as and for the purpose set forth-.

ROBERT ELsDoN..

Vitnesses:

STEPHEN EDWARD GUNYON, Y

7 Iocburgh Road, Upper Clapton. 'WILLIAM ANDERSON SMITH, 23 Farleigh Road, Stoke-Newington. 

